The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

I shall return.

People grow old only by deserting their ideals, Macarthur had written. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul. You are as young as your faith, as old as your...

I’ve looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.

Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that...

Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.

Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.

It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an...

Old soldiers never die; they just fade away. And like the old soldier in that ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty...

Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.

Security lies in our ability to produce

And like the old soldier in that ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the sight to see...

A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.

Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.

Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.

In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.

There is no substitute for victory.

I have just returned from visiting the Marines at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world!

If you must fire do a good job-a few casualties become martyrs, a large number an object lesson. …When a mob starts to move keep it on the run. …Use a bayonet to encourage its...

Last, but by no means least, courage – moral courage, the courage of one’s convictions, the courage to see things through. The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It’s the age-old struggle...

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

My first recollection is that of a bugle call.

This does not mean that you are warmongers. On the contrary, the soldier above all other people prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war. But always...

We are not retreating. We are advancing in another direction.

The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.

Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would gladly yield every honor which has been accorded me in war

a better world shall emerge out of the blood and carnage of the past.

Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one’s convictions, the courage to see things through. The world ;is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It’s the age-old struggle-the roar of...

On the fields of friendly strife are sown the seeds that on other days and other fields will bear the fruits of victory

The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It’s the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other.

Give me ten thousand Filipino soldiers and I will conquer the world.

The outfit soon took on color, dash and a unique flavor which is the essence of that elusive and deathless thing called soldiering.

Life is a lively process of becoming.

By profession I am a soldier and take pride in that fact. But I am prouder — infinitely prouder — to be a father. A soldier destroys in order to build; the father only builds,...

The holy mission has been completed

I have known war as few men now living know it. It’s very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.

Up to fifty atomic bombs should be dropped on Chinese cities,

I realize that advice is worth what it costs–that is, nothing.

I came out of Bataan and I shall return

In war, you win or lose, live or die-and the difference is just an eyelash.

The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

Americans never quit.

Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in...

[Erickson gave an address to the group gathered for the last time in Mankato that he described as very emotional. He told the group how gratifying it was to see all the young people, there...

Age wrinkles the body; quitting wrinkles the soul.

A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.

They died hard, those savage men-like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.

I see that old flagpole still stands. Have your troops hoist the colors to its peak, and let no enemy ever haul them down.

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation